Shipping and storing case



NQV. 5, 1929. Q WEAVER 1,734,314

SHIPPING AND STORING CASE Filed Dec. 13, 1928 INVEN TOR.

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M33 ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 5, l9

STATES CLARK E. WEAVER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI v SHIPPING AND STORING CASE Application filed December 13, was. Serial no. eea'zer.

My invention relates to shipping and storing cases, particularly well adapted for the shipment and storingof wooden panel strips and the like, and the method of packing 5 panels in such cases.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel shipping and storing case, which is cheap to make, strong and durable, which will hold the panels firmly packed transported, and which may be arranged in tiers so as to occupy a minimum of space. while at the same time permitting of the storing of piles of panels in the case in a manner such that panels may be readily and easily removed from the different piles in the case.

The novel features of my inventlon are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illfistrates the preferred embodiment of my improved case,

' Fig. 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of my lmproved case, showing panels packed therein. 7 i

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same with the cleats at one end removed.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig; 1.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fi 3.

Fig. 5 is a reduced top view of the pee ed case.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the difierent views.

The case is provided with vertical side members 1 between which are fixed, preferably by nailing theretma set of two cross 5 members disposed respectively adjacent to the ends of the side members 1, and which are designated by 2. 4

3 designates anels, comprising strips of veneering, or ot er material to be shipped or stored, or both, arranged in piles, and held compressed in the case. The lowermost pile 3, in packing, is placed upon the lowermost "fixed cross members 2. On this pile are placed removable wedging members 4, upon which are placed loose cross members 2. Downward pressure is then applied to the loose cross bars 2, thus tightly compressin the panels in the pile. The upper cross mem ers 2 are then fastened, as by nailing, to the inner sides .of the side members 1.

while being ends of the top cross members are fastened forced downwardly,

Another pile of panels is then placed upon the upper cross members 2, which have just been fastened, and removable wedging members 4 are placed on the last named pile, and two more loose cross bars are placed upon the last named wedging members 4. Downward pressure is then applied to the last named cross bars, thereby compressing the pile which has just been placed, after which the to the side members 1.

This method of assembling the panels, wedging members and other loose cross members 2, is continued until the top pile of panels has been compressed and so held by the top set of cross bars 2, the latter, after being being fastened, in the manner already described with reference to the underlying cross members, to the side members 1. I For holding the piles of panels from shifting endwise in the case, panel holding means, such as wooden cleats 5, extending across the ends of the piles 3 are fastened to the ends of the case, those cleats at one end being removable, to enable the removal of the panels after the wedging members have been removed.

Cleats 6 for reenforcing may be fastened, as shown, to the side members 1 adjacent to the ends thereof.

When quite lon panels are to be packed in the case, to keep t e panels from sagging, intermediate cross bars 2 are provided.

'llhese intermediate cross members 2, when employed, are fastened in place to the side members 1 at the same time as are the end cross members 2 which are in the same horizontal plane.

After transportation of the case, the cleats 5 at one end of the case are removed, as are the wedging members 4 which rest on the panel piles. The anels may then be removed from that end of the case from any of the piles without disturbance of the panels in the other piles.

'This construction enables the cases to be piled one upon another to conserve space, without at all interfering with the removal of the panels from any of the cases, as desired. 1

I do not limit my invention to the structure members,

shown and described, as modifications, within the scope of the claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is 2- 1. A shipping and storing case having side members, cross members in spaced sets one above another, the sets below the top set be-. ing adapted to respectively support piles of panels, and removable wedging members between said sets adapted to press on said piles and against the cross members next above.

2. A shipping and storing casehaving side cross members in spaced sets one above another, the sets below the top set being adapted to respectively support piles of panels, removable wedging members between said sets adapted to press the piles and against the cross members next above, and panel holding means extending across the ends of said piles at the ends of the case, and at one end of the case being removable to ermit the removal of the panels from sai end of the case after said wed'ging members have been removed.

3. A panel packed shipping and storing case comprising side members, cross members in spaced sets one set above another, the uppermost and lowermost sets being fixed between said side members, piles of panels respectively supported on the sets below the top set, removable wedging means pressing against the tops of said piles and against the cross members next above, and panel holding means extending across the ends of the panels at the ends of the case, and at one end of the case being removable to permit the removal of the panels from said end of the case, when said wedging members have been inter osed between said removed.

4. A panel packed case comprising side members, cross members spaced one above another and fixed between said side members, piles of panels respectively supported on said cross members, removable wedging members iles and the cross mem ers next above and olding the panels under compression, and panel holding means extending across said piles at the ends of the case, and at one end being removable to permit the removal of the panels at that end when said wedging members have been removed.

5. The method of packing panels in a case, consisting in disposlng a pile of panels on the bottom of the case, placing on said pile removable wedging means, placing cross members on said wedging means, applying downward pressure to said cross members, fastening said cross members to the case while under said pressure, then placing another pile of panels on said cross members, mounting on the latter wedging means, mounting cross members on the latter, applying pressure downwardly to the last named cross members and fastening them, while under pressure, to the case.

6. The method of packing panels in a case, consisting in disposing a pile of panels on the bottom of and in the case, placing on said pile removable wedging means, placing'cross members on said wedging means, applying downward pressure to said cross members, and, While under pressure fastening them to the case, then placing another pile of panels on said cross members, mounting on the latter wedging means, mounting cross members on the last named wedging means, applying downward pressure tothe last named cross members and, while under pressure, fastening them to the case, and fastening to the ends of the case panel holding means extending across the ends of said piles, said fastening means at one end of the case being removable to permit the removal of the panels from the case when the wedging means has been removed.

In testimony whereofkI have signed my name to this specification.-

CLARK E. WEAVER. 

